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rsi LC1:17,1 GAZErIE- MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1810. GENERAL ORD' RS. BY Ttir. fuGHT !lc:omm] HABLE THR GOVERNOR-GENE- fiAL'iN COUNCIL,. (Co4tipued from:Yesterday.) 10 1 • • 3 This prklec; Ir. ft wit h Lieut.-Gen. macdowai 1 publicatiOu after hisdeparture,•coriveys a sev , re reprimand , to Lieutenant-Colonel Munro, fir hiving io you , Govcl-01neiti oh the occasion of his arrest .a rne,i4ctre necessarily imposed upon him by the' col:duct or, Macdowall him self ; had sanction'ed'and acted upon yoni- Govf-ihineut:. A rep'rirnand, theretote, to Lieuteriatit•Crrunei Munro for having 'Made it, be calm:, by necessary inference,' a reprimand on the Govi. , t,r) men t 32. Titer supreme - Civil and Military power. which in all Governments inti‘t reside somewhere, is. in the Presidency of Fort St. George, vested by the Ati Of Parliament in the Governor in Council of that .Presidency, SubjeZA to the - control of the sure rior :a-A.l6l6'les in India and Europe, as described by taat aft ; and other _authorities and powers are to be lieitt and exercised -in subordination to that supreme authority 33. To contend that any authority can exist sepa rate, independent, ,and in contradiction to that su preme authority, can only be considered to be an attempt to pervert the usual practice of conducting public .busine4s, in certain specified and habitual channels, into a means of checking, resisting, and controulincr the Guyerniuent itself. 34. Any ° Nlii nary Officer addreOng himself dire6l- Iy to the Government, and -otherwise than thrtiugh the usual and ordinary channels of communication, certainly does it at his peril and it is incumbent upon him in -his own jostitication, to skew either that the usual - elivnels of application were ob struCted or retuned to him, or to state other and satis factory-causes tor the irregulartty of his Address.. s ... It then -becomes thet duty of the Government to decide how far the. peculiar circi-inistatices of The authorise and justify the irregulkiky of applica tion. . . 35. If the Government shall, formally, by its de claration, or virwaily by its aas, sanction such ap plication.; and appeal, by acting on the Information conveyed iu it, aid witnout censuring the mode in which it wa; receive.t; it then becoruk:s the duty of the Comm4nding Officer, or Cotuniander in Chief, through whose channel the application or appeal was originally offered, to submit his opinion to that of the Government. 36. It is not competent to a Commanding Officer or Commander in C'hiet, afier such notification of the sentiments of Government, to reprimand, bring to trial, or otherwise molest those who have ap pealed to the Government, for having made that appeal in a mode which, in the opinion of the Go vernment, has been justified by the. circumstances of me case. 37._ If Lieutenant-General Macdowall thought that e ;overnieent had exceeded its powers, in ae cepttug the appeal 'of Lieutenant-Colorkl Munro, and requiring his release from arrest, it was com petent to him to hive stated his opinion in an appeal to us, or the Supreme Govemnent in India ; but a publication in General Or.,iers, that is, a publicatiun addressed to the armyagainst,the Orders of Govern-. menta publication which not .only pronounced a severe censure upon Lieutenam=Colonel Munro, bu, declared an intention of bringing him to a Court- Martial, for the conduct which the Government held to be justifiable, and whiCh was, therefore,' .as be fore stated, a dired censure and attack upon the con duct and power of the Government—must be consi dered as a measure unjustifiable in itself, and of the most dangerous tendency. 38. This measure rendered- it in your opinion your, cluly, to assert and maintain your own legiti mate authority thus. publicly called in question ; and we approve of the orders which yon issued upon this occasion, direding..the removal of Lieutenant-Ge neral Macdowall from the coininand of the troops at Fort St.. George, and for expunging the orders which he had issued from all this public records - of 'your Presidency. 39. 'We now proceed to take notice of other parts f Lieutena , .t-General'Macdowall's corresponr dence. We consider the insinuation conveyed in Lieutenan -General Macdowali's letter, of gist Jan uary; 1809,-to the Qual . ter-Msster-General, that " by his not putting the Quarter-Master-General under arrest, a door would be left open to the possible introduction Of undue: influence and arbi trary power," to be highly unwarranted aod highly 40. _The observations which Lieutenant-General Macdowall, thought fit to record, against his non appointmrnt by. us to a seat in our -Council of Fort St. George, are conveyed .in terms which ap pear to us disrespedful and offensive. 4J. The non-appointnerit of Lieutenant-General "Macdowall to a seat in our Council, of Fort St. George was not determined by considerations per sonal to him. It was the consequence of a principle adopted by us at that. time upon general Nie;ss, for the`gbvernment of the subordinate Presidencies. But whatever motives ought to have been supposed to have influenced us in declining to give a seat in Council to the -Cornininder in • Chief of Fort St. . George, we cannot-admit such an exercise of our discretion to have formed a justifiable subject of ani madversion on - the part of Lieutenant - General Macdowall, who, having accepted the otlide of Com mander in Chief, was bound to maintain to the ut most of his power, the authority of the Government, as.s.%;ell - as the discipline and subordination of the troops. • - 24. The appolntment of a Commander in Chief' to a seat. in Council at any of our Presidencies is an arrangement at all times purely discretionary with us, and cannot be claitried as a matter of right by any Officer succeeding by casual promotion; or by specific appointment, to the command of the troops at such Presidency. 43. We now proceed to another in - Stance in which we feel' ourselves under the, necessity of expressing LONDON: Printed by RICHAI At the Stm-Opp. the "bust serious disap;:robation pf the- condutcfof Lient:lGeneral It is in tht transmis,-, sion of a memorial of the most exceptionahle n.,ture Boni certain offers of our army, and on the,Bl /Ong approbation he has conveyed• of _that Meniori i a iu hi, letter to you of :he 23ils Jan. ! s.og. 44. It aprears,. that about . May or, June,. 108, Lieut.-General Macdowall, at the'desire of. Sir,G. Barlow (privately ommunicate 4 l AO him), wrote to !he Otficei's -connmanding the principm sistions of the anus', to require them, to. repress an add,csi to the Snpreine Government in lkogal, which was at that time in cireulatiob among the 011 - icers'ol the Madras , Army, for the, purpose of obtaining an equallzation of allowance with the 011icets serv ing in Bengal. . . 45. But on the 23a of January, 1809, Lieutenant General Macdo wall tor wardvd to the Governor in Council an Address to the Court ofDiredois, trom a considerable number of. O ffi cers of the Madras Army, - in which, among other things; they, say,— ". We pe.tition, wht one voice, that the Madras army be placed permanently on the sante allow ances with that of Bengal ; . and, in urging this re quest, we presume, we only ask what jthlice de mands, our services entitle us, to, and what we shall ever consider as our just right." _ ward, is, that the orderi of the Court of Dire6tors for removing his, Majesty's Officers from the com mand of stations where their regiments are not quar tered, • and for appointing military men to the ply offices of the army, have not been carried into ef fect by the Madras Goverpment. 55. novv fur our orders on _these sub:ras laVe been yet carried into effect, we are unable precisely to ascertain; but we know they have been exe cuted to a certain extent ; and as 'we have no doubt of' the disposition of oar Governor in Coun cil at Fort St. George, to executethcsennd all other orders in the most ptinaual ma , iner, and with 'the greatest practicable expeditiOn ; we do not doubt that, ere this, time, considerable progress has been made in arrangements, which evidently will not admit-of instantaneous adoption, without danger to the public interests .and. to the regularity of public business. , 56. It is possible, indeed, that cases may occur; in which both the Officers in the King's, and Corn-. pany's servite may be properly seletted for the corn matt& of stations where their respeaive regiMents , are not quartered ; and if such should occur; it will be, your, duty to,see that this is done without par tiality' to either; stating your reasons at large for any deviation from the general rule. ' • 57. The Address then goes on - to complain of the abolition of the, tent con,traa, an arrangement founded upon arguments. which we believe to be in enntroVertible, although- some of the fads niion. which the arguments for its abolition were ground , d, are brought .forward in the Address as reasons for its continuation. 46. This Address was transmittgd through Lient.- 'General Macdowall to the Gore invent of Fort St. George, with a letter from himself,- in which he strongly recommends and supports this address of the Others ; notwithstanding that he h , rd, but , a few months before., sent diiections to the Oi - lierrs . , commanding the principal stations ofwthe army to i i suppress an address, then in circulation, for the +/cry same purpose, namely, that of obtaining an enuli ratiNti of allowances at Isrladraa and fietigal. And here we pause, to remark on the very exttaorditrary and censurable conduct of Lientenant.:General Mae- duwall, in recom :ending and supporting a memori al, more reprehensible in its nature and language than - that .which, at a short preceding period, he had interposed his authority to suppress. We can the less wonder that, it thus encouraged and supported, the Officers find fault with and complain of every ' :4a of the Government which in any way affect s their personal interests, however necessary it may be to the well-being and safety of the, State. • 47. Although the Address of toe Officers is not yet before us in an authenticated form, we think , it proper to. take the present oppMtunity to make some observations upon the topics contained in ,it. 48. The general prelimina.y te;lesentation 'made , by the Officers of the, nature and disadvantages of the Company's service, we conceive to. be trignly objettiunable and incorrect. The complaint, that they are banished to a .distance from their couwry and friends, for a considerable portion of their lives, is complaint applicable to his Majesty's, and to most other ,military service ; well known to be essential. to theirs when they first enter ii, and therefore not a becoming to, is of complaint in mi litary men. Besides which,' we nave to observe, that no one enters into our military service in In dia' but on his own application, and with the toll knoWledge that he can advance 'in it, only in a course of years; but when the Officers add, " We are doomed to toil. through many a painful:year,' on an allowance scarcely adequate to our suosiirtence, until after a period, of twenty-two years services in India, we have the melancholy alternative- .'t re- . turning home, to live in dependence and .compara tive poverty on the pensions of our tanks, or com bating ~ eith age and infirmities, in a clime avuweuly hostile to our constitutions;"—when they make this representation of their situation and prospects, they surely forget „that the .military alio ances of the Company aiVi . tglier than those of any other limi tary SeiVICENg: the work:, although, the necessaries of lite are coMparati•ve,y cheap in India; that they attain the -highest lank without purchase or ex pence ;. and- that the provision fur te.iiing Officers is-such as •no other service has atforticd, and such as the finances of . the Company are even strained to ' supi':ort. - 58. The Address states, that during war, the al low;inces for the tent contracts were unequal ,to the' expences, a fa& which we conceive is decisi%e against its propriety, .although the only inference drawn from it in the address, is, that the contract should be continued during peace. 59. This argument 'night have some force, ,if the . tent contract were to be considered only with se ference to the advantages of the Officers who. held it ; although we are of opinion, that even in this limited view of thesubjea, the continuation of the contract had been sufficiently extended in point of time ,to allow those Officers an opportunity of reim bursing themselves during pace for the extraordi nary expences which they might. haveincurred dur ing the war.' Some, perhaps many, of the "011ietitS who, held the contract during war, must have been removed since the peace' by death, promotion, or riwiternent, from- the commands to which it was lathed; without. having. had the opportunity of reimbursing themselves ; and this • furnishes ano ther strong arzument against the tent contrael, when viewed only with reference to the interest, of indi.iduais. ; . 60. The reasons, however, for abolishing the tent contrad, which appear to us of more force, are, that it provided at a great and constant expense for putting ad the native corps in readiness to move ; when from the nature of things, many of them must at ail Oates necessarily \ remaiu stationary ; that the expence of falling the terms of the contraa being ouch greater in the field than in the garrison, the Officers contracting were placed in a situation in which their interest might eventually he in opposi tion to their duty ; that it niust interfere with the di.cipline of carps, by .withdrawing the at tention and occupying ihe time of CorninAnding Of= ficers, in cases not connected with the discipline of their respedive regiments and bay aborts; and finally, pat it .made the Commanders of corps Officers of clisbur-ement and expenditure, not , .as they always ought to be, of check or emu - A over the'clisburse 'Bents of others. These reasons had induced Lord Cornwallis, after establishing the tent contra.-.t in war, to revoke it in time of peace,- and upon the ob= vious ground that it was an arrangement made to pro mote, not the advantages of the Officers, but the ef-, ficeocy of the service.. 6.1. The Address then again reverts to the i:lairn of an' equaliiation of military allowances at Madras and Bengal ; a claim, which, though it neither be, grounded on any solid prindples, ,nor can ever be admitted as the basis of any praraic.3l regulation ; we shall examine somewhat more in detail than we hay thought necessary in considering the ether subjects of the Address, because it isa question 'di extensive pro Sped, embracing many points besides• The tine now brought bet Ore us. ' 62. In the different presidencies' of the'Company in Iridia, distinctions have from' the beginning sub .sisted in respect to emoluments and advantages (not only in the military but in every other deparktnent): These distinCtions - have arisen from the compir rative importance of the Presideniies themselves, and of the public business to be transaaled under them. 63 / . Thus Bengal, the first great territorial pos-. session to the Compapy, had its establishments early settled with some analogy to its income ; and that country, as being the seat Of the British interests in India, came to have a standard of public allovv ancea, which could not he exactly imitated at the other P►esideucies under their very different circum stances: 49. ,After these preliminary observations, the Address proceeds to' complain of the abolition of the bazar allowance; an arrangement which is nut confined to Madras, but extended to•the other Pre sidencit:s, which is in stria conformity to the articles of war, which prohibit the levy.ot duties by Officers on. all articles of consumption ) . and is evidently founded on the most incoatioveriible principles of sound policy: 50. It is not politic to give 'Officers an interest in the amount of.. imposts levied in military markets,because it has an evident tendency ; to make the soldiers discontented with their Officers, by feeling themselves taxed for the benefit of those who command therm--in evidence of which a , very recent instance-might be quoted. 51. •It is further to be ob;erved, that, in India, the amount of the colledions in military bazars, has alwal s depended principally on the extension of the sale.of spirituous liquors to the troops. To,give an Officer, therefore, au interest in the amount •of duties delivablt from such a source, is to set his interest.direttly•iat varialice with his duty,,and to hold out to him a reward for encouraging that •in toxication which ills his first duty to discountenance and suppress. , • . . . 64. The style of living also among the Europeans, as we may presume, gtadcaily adapted itself to ale scale of income. • 65. The persons nominated to civil and - milita►y employments have entered the service. perfectly aware of these inequalitiei, and — ale therefore not entitltd to expel that they should be afterwards re moved. • biz. it is not meant by these observations to state, , that these inconveniences have actuithy taken place under. the administration of the Company's present Officers ; but it is a sufficient reason for the abolition of a general arrangement, that it has a tendency to produce consequences highly injurious to the service. This observation is applicable to every part of the succeeding argument. 53. The next complaint stated in the Address is, the abolition of the allowance of full batta to Offi cers commanding stations; but the allowance has been rather transferred and extended than abOlislied, and that upon principles of the most obvious pro priety. For, on the recommendation of Sir John Craddock, the full batta was trauiferred from the Officers commanding stations, to Officers com manding corps ; iron Officers in a fixed sod quiet situation, to Officers employed in the more active duties of their profession., 54. The next subject of complaint brought for 66. The Company have hence- atways resisted the idea of a gener4 equalization- of allowances and emoluments of the different presidencies, as not foundtd in right or the nature of things. • 67. Supposing tor a moment, ,that such a prin ciple could be admitted and enforced, the conse"- quence„, in the present state of the finances of the. Company, must be to reduce the few remaining dis tinctions of the Bengal presidency to a level with those of Madras and Bombay ; as it would be ut tjrly impossible toTrovide for the extreme, of rais ing the emoluments of the inferior Presidencies to a. level with those (if "Bengal, extended as this rise must be to all the civil as well :is military branches of the set vice, if once the principles Of equalization wgre. ado;ited.', PRICE (IJ YESTS B.ink Stock, shut Navy s per Cent. 99 Irish 5 per Cent. 4 per Cent. shut , ' I per Cent. Red. shut . 3 per Cons. 68 67i 68 Bank L. Ann. shut RD H otNo. 4, Mattlett-court, Low-street; and Published by WILLIAM ARMIC;ER 'SCRIPPS; South Molton.itreet, Grovrenor.rgua. e. leg, No. 2, Strand, where .Advdrti-sertrents, Orders for the T o sier, Getters for the .iscli . zzr 6 c. (post-pica, mot be addressed. e 38., In all the presidencies, howeser, the so' e „, allowances has - been more than ti t for Portable subsistence ; and in the case of ail the Yates and noti 7 comtnisiioned Officers 'of the a i rt. t ) l o '; the_rateS have beim at all times v e ry . g etierahl sameiat all the'presidencies'.. • has Gy .From a concurrence of circumstances it. MS() happened, that an approximatien to an eq." N too .zation of alloa atices has in lad taken place, in s° , as to . reduce the advantage of the Bengal Mih t o f Serviee generally almost to an eqwility with thoser the other presidencies, and if the comparative O to Mess of proincrion at that presidency be taken T o t. .) the estititate,. it might not be incorrect to say ti # the military service in Bengal has not been for otaPiel,.. years past upon a superior footing, upon 111,e vi c h() t he than 'at either of the other pr e siden c i e s. 1' " 8 0 MaJras Officers possess a reasonable plea to have thehjallowitices put on a heel with those of Be fi t' s the Bengal Officers have a plea at least as spec : town equalization of ,rank in prorrtion to leng t ' j o . service. The, infantry have the same plea of plaint against the quicker promotion in the ccivo ir be ' and the artillery against b o th. Inshorte there all , no code() the operation of thiS principle of eqoah i i tion, it it be allowed to supersede all established OsaP and all considerations of ,expediency. • 70. The regimental allowances, however, bot h r o 'Officers and men are very ne a rly th e same at, all t) , presidencies, and wh e r e ve r mer e com f ortae l e tense is concerned, it . has been the Deject ot the P` l f i f lic regulations at all times, t o appr ,Xi t n a le as 0 3 " to an equality of allowances as the local stances of each presidency admitted. 71. But the staff, and other extra allowancei, r est • upon a different fon Aation ; they are gr onods a s a vantages Conferred on individealS at the pieasurea n t discretion of he Government e aad are calculated not with reference to what other melt receive, who perhaps perform suttees in Other p1ac0," 1541 , e in reference to the means of the governing po%veli and the view which it may taloeuf th e merits o ' l services ot the receiver. 72. Upon the same principl e a,if the neeeSS., e;.„ 9 of the State require that a doninuti:,n should take f c d tn. the expendof expenditure of any, or all time settletueot, in India, it is not to be expected that such re ducli ° ' e shall fall ' , first or only upon those who receive t 3t higher salaries, whether civil or military, at..otte or „ t i another presideneye but the Goversuneet Itas t , undoubted right, legal and moral, to dccele ..eritly with the principles of justke, what part °f t i o sersice will best alma of that iedUCliCni wutcb necessities of the State demand. •,!ep 73. But it is unnecessary t to press this prirtelr . LlC e :however incontestable; as, in point of fact, •tions have been ordered, and are in a train of el' hd cut ion, at all the. presidencies, and atTeditig 2 ° f it , branches of the Company's set vice, civil and ° l to tary ; reductions which are absolutely necessarY, to tee existence of the Company, and consequeo'jY r . the maintenance and prizAision of all their .5..1-.o' :I as well in Indiaas in Europe, as well in the ret ire iv and pensioued establishments, as in the more e ar ' and active stages of service. ". tIO 74'. Another subject of complai n t made by je r Officers of the Alach as army is, that the Coatitiat' in Chief, whom, in imitation of himself, they s ), "Tope Reprpsentative of the Army: had beeo ;‘ eluded trom a seat in council. to 75. The property of gra:aim:4'a seat iti , Lieutenant-General MacJo',„voll, or to any other C °l ",.. wander in Cirel, is a 'question so eutirelyeinf ° , l , netted with the interests of the Officer's thernsei v ',;,' and the constitution: of the ArMy. u e der the c °ll v Many and the British Govertithent, that it is not ea''„ to consider its introduction into their Addreisirea tl l i e other light than as an espousal,' on the part ot I Officers, of Lieutenant-General- Macdowail's on re ko ‘ r sonable 'cornplaints on this. subject, in retort; ' 1 the countenance which he- has so improperly sb " to the qually unreasonableecornplaints ot the e ficers. [To be continued.] We understand that the ground near Palatel" h ' a. laid open by the improvement of W estin insier, "i s t ween the Nev Square and (he Sessions to be let upon long building leases, and a coniP ettr isr tion at biddings•is invited by public advertibem el “ without specitying any fixed price. S P S CR AVESEND, SEPT. G. Saiieti—the,Purspit, Miller, tor jainaiea • , 11//t/ ii. S .. tfor ci ' On Saturday last, at his house at -Cheshunt, in Her - - ag shire, the Lady of John Syntpsun iessopp, Esq. Barri,tcr Law, ot a On Thur 0 sday M ast,'the Lady of the Rev. William Gr oCO' of St. Margaret's, Westminster, of a Son.. ' stt. •• Yesterday, at twelve o'clock, at her house, No. 10 9 r lisbury Mace, New-road, Madame Catalitni, of a 1) • i ' ter.. 1° • . Lately, at 'Sheffield- Honse, Queen's COLinti, I r eland' s , 0 , Wellt of Nlajur Cdssan, the Lady of Stephen Shettield C° 4 Esq..liarri,teat. Law, of a Vak,ght'er. . __....". /114Rir/P..0 In lune last, in_the Island of St. Croix, Nest Inrii 4s ' - Ll I l P. Kingston, Esq. Weighniasier in that illan% to the - nish Baroness Margaret de Bit tton. . E 1 scl• I.arely, at the Catli;:dral, - Waterford, William Barono .-- s of Faliagla, in that 'County, to lane, eldest chatg titer (); , Simon Th Newport. ' err On ursday last, Mr. Richard Biggs, of Park-s t t 'i r s. Bristol, to, Miss ItabecettNeale, youngest daughter ot . ' Neale, of il.e sartw place. to N t i y , 55 Yesterdiy, J. r. 'l'ompson, Esq. of Lincoln's-inn, Chitty, only surviving daughter of the lite I t nqish Ch i ' Esq. of Chadwel I, in Essex. ____.-+-e"' , DIED. On the Bth of July, at Madeira, Barbara, second daug hte ' of Sir Henry Hay Macdougall, Bart. of Nlakersioun Fop On IVed'ilestiey morning,. at lifighton, Henry ilughs , HarleY-streei, aged 62. t On Thursday mortiihg, at Lullingstone Castle, .-e -n the 78th year of Ws age, Sir John Dixon t)) ke, Bart. . 00 K• The saint day, at Newport, Isle of Wight, Tempier ft, aged 22 years, second son of Thanas Cook,. Esq. N e trja , His death, was occasioned by lying on the grass, all e ' tiguing himselt i shooting on the rst of-Septeinbe 1 1 ' STOCKS It DAY. India Inia StOCA of: D or.ds , 225, 235.225• K , Exeheq. Bills, is. ss: pr , Omnium, 5 dis. I Imperial 3 per Cent. 661 Ditto Ann. 6 1 ;- 16 th s .i. 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